Hit up IRL this morning to get some fishing in. I hadn’t hit up the river in a while and had been hearing good things. After grabbing some live shrimp I put in near 520. After about 5 minutes of having my shrimp stolen I landed my first keeper Mangrove Snapper. The next few hours I hit a few more small snappers before calling it. On my very last shrimp I hit a 13.5″ mangrove with a little bit of heft. That shrimp barely hit the water when the snapper sent my spool spinning (lightweight reel and line today). Catching a larger snapper on a tiny reel was kinda fun. All in all a good day.

The surf fishing has been great this week. While trying to catch pompano I landed three 27″ redfish. One on Saturday and two on Sunday. I was unable to get any pompano but the man fishing just down the beach was slaying them. I was able to get several blues, whitings, rays, sharks, and ladyfish. The fishing gods have been kind this week.